Passenger-car.



H. H. ADAMS.

PASSENGER GAR.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 18, 199B.

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H. H. ADAMS.

PASSENGER GAR.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 18, 190s.

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HARRY H. ADAMS, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

PASSENGERTCAR.

Specification Vof Letters Patent.l

Patented May 10, 1910.

Application filed May 18, 1908. Serial No. 433,365.

To all whom it 'may concern:

Be it known that Lliaanr H; ADAMS, a citizen of thellnited States, residing in Baltimore,I Maryland, have invented certain Improvements in Passenger-Cars, of' which the following is a specification. l

My invention relates to certain improvements in passen 'er cars in which the passenger pays his tare-on entering thel car.

'.One object of my invention is to so construct a passenger vear that the vestibulo will be in the center of the car; and a further object is to so arrange the parts that passengers can board the car or alight there from' at either side of Athe car, according to the direction inV which the car is moving.

In "the accompanying drawings :-Figure l, is a plan view of a passenger ear ilustrating my invention, showing the. railings in one position; Fig. 2, is an enlarged v iew ofvpart of Fig. l; Fig. 3, is a view similar to Fig. 2, with the railings shifted to the opposite position; Fig. 4,' is a transverse sectional View of the car on the line L -4,

' of the railings.

Fig. 2; F ig. 5, is a detached perspective view of the rail Fig. (l, is a view illustratinglr a modication of the method of hinging the rail; and Fig. 7, is a vie-w showing a car with my improved vestibule at one end.

` A is the body'of theV car.

B is the vestibule, preferably situated at the center of the car and separated from the interior of the car lby vthe transverse partitions D, D, as shown in Fig. 1. In each of these partitions' are two doorways d, d closed by sliding'doors e, e', respectively.

I, I are two railings, in the present inI stance at the center ot the partitions D, D and .supported on standards i, z'.

F, F" are upright posts dividing the step sections b, 'ZJ into three sectionsand 'pivoted tothe rails-I are sections Iwhich can be locked to vthe posts F or F', according to the position in Iwhich they are shifted. These sections I and thef rails I, IV separate. the central ingress passage from thetwo side egress passages, 'and-I have shown thef doors e, ef as sliding doors, but they may be plv oted so as to swing, if desired, and meansl may be provided for' allowing them-to swing in either direction, according to t-he posit-ion The interior o'f the car is provided with seats a of the ordinary construction and at eachend there is room for the m'otorman,

butthe arrangement of the seats yand the doorways In operation my improved car, if it is` moving 41n the direction indicated by .the arrow, Fig. 1, then the sections I of the railing are shifted to the position shown in Fig. 1anfl the opposite side of the vestibule is closed by doors, gates or railings G, as de# sii-ed, so as to prevent-the passengers entering the'vetibule from the wrong side of the ear. lt' doors or gates are used they may be so hinged as to fold back out of the way, or they may be arranged to be removed and transferred .from one side of the ear to the other.

The'conductor can stand in either one of two positions B in the vestibule B and the passenger enters the ear through the central passageway and pays his fare to the conductor as he passes around the rail, enteringeither of the doorways d, al and any passenger wishing to alight from the car passes out either ot' the doorways o onto the portion B of the vestibule and alights from the car at that side. lf the car is moving inthe opposite direction then' the sections I of the rails are turned on their pivots so as to engage the posts F and the doors G, or other obstructions, are either folded back or removed from that side of the vestibule and doors or other obstructions are placed on the other side of the vestibule, as shown inA Fig. 3, and when the parts `are in this posi-A tion the doorways d are the ingress door ways and the j doorways CZ are the egress Theseveral doors may' becontrolled by the conductor so that it would be impossible to open the doors, especially the ingress doors unless the 4conductor releases them.y By this means the conductor can prevent a passenger entering the interior of the car until-the fare has been paid.

N is the compartment at each end the car for the motorman.I This compartment is divided from the interior of the car by fixed partitions n and movable partitions or doors n so that when the motorman is intheA compartment N the doors n are closed, while in the compartments at the other endthe doors are folded back against the partitions n, but this construction of motormans compartment may be modified without departing from the essential features of the inve`ntion.

In Fig. 7,1 have shown a car in 'which the' 'vestibule isat oneend and the rail is shifted so that passengers can board .or alight from the car at either side, one side being closed when the other is open.

While I have shown an extension I in the form of a single rail, it will be understood that the rail which, in fact, is a guard or partition, may be of any form and height made detachable and shifted from one posi' tion to the other. i l

1. The combination in a passenger car, of a vestibule open at 'both sides of the car, transverse partitions at each side of the vestibule, two doorways'in each partition communicating with the interior of the car, and two railin s having movable sections capable of stijl ting from one side of the ear to the other so as to separ te the ingress and egress sections of the vestibule.

2. The combination in a. passenger car, of a vestibule extending from one si'de of the car tothe other and two transverse partitions, each having two doorways therein, two posts atueaeh sideof the vestibule, two rails projecting from the transverse partitions into thev vestibule, and pivoted sections hinged to said rails so that they ,can be shifted to engage the posts on one side of the vestibule br the posts -on the other side and separating the central .ingress passage from the two egress passages.

3. The combination ina passenger car, of

a vestibule, two transverse artitions sepa'f iie bod ofthe ear, each partition having two 4oorways 4 therein, two posts at each side of the vestibule, rails projecting from the partitions between the doorways and into the vestibule,

so as to swing in a vertical plane and engage the posts on either side of the vestibule.

4. The combination in a passenger' car having a central vestibule, of two transverse .and a movable section pivoted to each rail partitions separating the vestibule from the .I body ofthe car, each partition having two doorways therein, the spaces between the doors being equal to the width of the door'- way, sliding doors mounted in the partition and arranged to close the doorways and when open to slide past each other, two railings projecting from the eentral portion of each partition into the vestibule, each rail having a transverseA movable section Vcapable of being shifted@ from one side of the vesti-- bule to the other so as to divide the vestibule into ingress and egress passages on one side of the ear, and means for closing the opposite side of the vestibule.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of 4 two subscribing witnesses.

1 `HARRY H. ADAMS.

YVitnesses:

FELIX R. SULLIVAN, F. HERBERT PREM. 

